"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped." - George Orwell, 1984 oil and oil pastel on canvas (50x70cm) delere (Latin): to destroy, to blot out, to erase. The root of the word delete. There are two ways to make a truth disappear. You can redact it - draw the black bar, seal the file, leave the shape of the secret visible on the page. Or you can burn it. DELERE is both. It is built from a true story. In 1973 the CIA ordered every file from its twenty-year mind-control program destroyed. The only reason MKUltra is known at all is that one box was misfiled and escaped the burn. The record was meant to become ash, delere. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell, 1984